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A FanX vendor in character as he cosplays as Professor Snape from the Harry Potter series.

Who will you be tonight? Cosplaying at FanX

Cooper Hatsis, Assistant Editor October 1, 2024

Salt Lake City’s annual FanX Comic & Pop Culture Convention event brought thousands of people together to the Salt Palace Convention Center on Sept. 26 to celebrate pop culture from different movies,...

Taylor Brimhall cosplaying as "Rosspool", a crossover of Deadpool and Bob Ross. (Kalie Pead/ The Signpost)

The artists of FanX

Skyler Hudson September 11, 2019

Salt Lake City's 12th semi-annual FanX convention attracted artists and guests from around the world, featuring a wide range of festivities from plushies to tattoos. The Ink Alliance, an international...

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Beyond the comics: Cosplay cultivates confidence

Morgan Stonehocker October 25, 2017

Cosplay — or the act of dressing up in costumes that portray characters from movies, TV shows, video games or any other form of media — is part of fan culture and self-expression and has recently...

Conventions, big or small, can be a place for cosplayers to meet each other and for artists to sell their work. (Source: Mariahn Seavello and Sami Arrington) Photo credit: Sami Arrington

Cosplayers suit up for second annual Wildcat Mini Con

Leah Higginbotham April 13, 2017

Traditional fundraising involves making phone calls and pestering people with long-winded speeches until they give in and donate, but several Weber State University students have found a less obnoxious,...

The line for the cosplay contest just after the news of the coding error was dropped. (Leah Higginbotham/The Signpost)

Comic-Con coding conundrum causes cosplay contest catastrophe

Leah Higginbotham September 6, 2016

The Salt Lake Comic-Con always has me buckled in for a rollercoaster of emotions: joy, excitement, nervousness and a little bit of claustrophobia, but never before has disappointment been on the list.As...

FanX offers nerdvana to Utah geeks

February 1, 2015

  Nirvana. Elysium. Heaven. They are all words of paradise that hold different meanings to different people. Through the eyes of a geek girl, they are filled with visions of dancing Deadpools,...

Comic Con comes to Salt Lake City

September 2, 2014

There are conventions, and then there's Comic Con. Comic Con is coming to Salt Lake this week, bringing together thousands of people who like nothing better than to dress up as fantasy characters and...

Fun summer activities we could be doing

June 18, 2014

This is the first time I’ve taken summer classes in college. On top of that, I’m working three jobs, one of these as the opinion editor for The Signpost. I find every day is filled with juggling multiple...

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